Your article raises a good question beyond Korea. Other governments use civil asset seizure laws and proceeds of crime legislation to steal sometimes legal property. One has to "prove" one came by the assets legally - and governments have lots of time and resources to make getting ones property back a losing option. It'll be perplexing for those states that don't consider crypto currencies as money... How can "they" seize assets they claim don't exist? Ahhhh.... the Orwellian doublespeak of it all. At one time we thought dystopian societies were science fiction - now we find ourselves allowing our political "representatives" to incrementally shift us to, not Utopia but Dystopia. And so it goes...